Usually means: Comedic play using exaggerated situations.
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General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. farce: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. farce: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. farce: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. farce: Collins English Dictionary
  5. farce: Vocabulary.com
  6. Farce, farce: Wordnik
  7. farce: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. farce: Wiktionary
  9. farce: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. farce: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. farce: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Farce, farce: Dictionary.com
  13. farce: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. farce: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Farce: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Farce: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. farce: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. farce: Rhymezone
  19. Farce (f), farce, farce (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. farce: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Farce: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. farce: Free Dictionary
  23. farce: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. farce: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. farce: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. farce: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. farce: Legal dictionary

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  1. farce: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FARCE: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Farce: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See farced as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
noun:  (countable) A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.
noun:  (uncountable) A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
noun:  (uncountable) A ridiculous or empty show.
verb:  (transitive) To stuff with forcemeat or other food items.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To fill full; to stuff.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To make fat.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To swell out; to render pompous.
noun:  (cooking) Forcemeat, stuffing.
verb:  Alternative form of farse (“to insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy)”) [(transitive) To insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy).]

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